[27169] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.46: psutils
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Fitzgerald)
Mon Jan 28 20:17:28 2008
From: Tom Fitzgerald <tfitz@mit.edu>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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It's certainly possible to work around it, it's just the
surprise/confusion that got me.
A side effect is that makewhatis (run from cron) can't see those
man pages, so "man -k" won't ever retrieve a psutils man page,
though it will retrieve man pages for everything else in
/usr/athena/man. This is another confusion issue.
> The psutils locker contains among other things, a build of Adobe
> Transcript, which is not free software, which is presumably the reason
> for the non-public ACL.
>
> Is having tokenless access to psutils something that would be actively
> useful in some regularly-occuring context, or is this more of a
> theoretical objection? I'm CCing 3partysw, which may have a clearer idea
> of the status here, but if there's reason we could probably segregate or
> punt the Transcript stuff.
